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Originally Posted by Nancy1999  Commercial breeders hire lobbyists to spread propaganda, and misinformation. At one time I believed that it would be OK for animal rights groups and the commercial breeder to fight it out, but this was until I realized some extreme animal rights group are against any breeding, and as I said before, the small home breeder has no one watching their back. So you have extreme animal rights groups who would like to end all breeding and the commercial pet industry who would also like to put the home breeder out of business. Both money-backed organizations are after the home breeder. After all, if there were no home breeders, the pet industry could charge whatever they wanted for pets. That why I'm always suspicious when someone is screaming about the fact that this or that bill will hurt the home breeder, this is a very common technique used by the commercial breeder lobby. So this time I wanted to read the bill for myself and see if what they were saying about it was true, that why I wanted to talk about specific points in the bill. The commercial breeder's lobby always seems to spout three things, "We don't have a problem", and when that doesn't work anymore, "There are already laws in place," and of course, let's not forget, "This bill will effect the home breeder." This bill will have serious repercussions on the commercial breeder, not the home breeder.
I think it's great that you want to fix the USDA system. However, right now, Indiana wants to fix what it sees as a serious problem, state governments are free to set laws as they see fit, as long as the law at least meets Federal standards. Why should they have to wait for the Federal government to do something about it? Some states are more aware of the special problems that they have and should be able to address the problems in their own state. |
The origin of this bill in Indiana is this. A representative and his wife purchased a dog from a bad breeder and it died. Now I know this representative and he is an intelligent man. Had they done a little homework-- and we all know it is not hard to find information about the horrors of mills- before buying the dog we would not be here now. The other incident involved a dog that was found frozen in someone's yard. To my knowledge that was not a breeder's dog. At some point the director of the HSUS in Indiana was brought in for her opinion (she is a young lady fresh from law school in Colorado and to my knowledge does not have much dog related experience). That is why this bill is so similar to that being proposed in over 30 other states this session.
I am not aware of any lobbying organization representing commercial breeders in Indiana. I thought I heard that Farm Bureau might be involved, and a dog club lobbyist, but I have not heard of any other lobbyists working to oppose this bill.